"A role model to all of a certain age, Dawson Leery taught us how to break and enter, how to be a bad friend and, most importantly, how to yearn. His years-long pursuit of the girl next door is still, for some of us, the reason we keep sending late-night texts to people who absolutely do not want to hear from us."
"From its rousing piano intro to its stirring snare drum climax, Paula Cole's I Don't Want to Wait became the anthem of 90s romantics everywhere. We felt those lyrics deep in our teenaged hearts we're 15, we'll be dead before we know it, there's no time to waste. I thought about walking down the aisle to this song, but my literal wedding somehow didn't seem romantic enough to justify it."
James Van Der Beek has died at 48, leaving a Dawson-shaped void for many millennial TV fans. Dawson Leery exemplified a generation's romantic yearning while also modeling bad choices like breaking and entering and poor friendships. The character's prolonged pursuit of the girl next door continues to inspire late-night, unwanted texts from some viewers. Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait" became the 1990s romantic anthem, capturing teenage urgency. Jen Lindley arrives in the pilot as a cosmopolitan NYC transplant who immediately disrupts Dawson, Joey and Pacey. Jack's classroom poem outing remains a memorable coming-out moment.
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